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4Aviation's Portugal tour

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Hi all, below some impressions of 4Aviation's Portugal tour from 30 August till 2 September.
The weather, sunny and hot throughout! I'll take you through the tour in chronological order.

Monte Real, 30 August 2010..
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Montijo, 31 August 2010.
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Sintra, 31 August 2010.
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Beja, 1 September 2010.
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Thanks go to Stefan and Jurgen!

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Hi Hans,

Great stuff!
And no need to say thanks, it was our pleasure!

Below a couple more pictures.

Sunday 29 August 2010, Sintra, Museo do Ar

AT-11 2504
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Harvard III 1517
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G91R/3 5445 with special colours (was as RAF Fairford in 1993!)
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C212-100 16508
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TA-7P 15550 in need of a little rework
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SP-2E 4711, once part of the Dutch navy
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Sunday 29 August 2010, Santo André das Tojeiras

G91T/3 34+27, one of many former German and Portuguese Ginas in the country
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Monday 30 August 2010, Montijo

F-16BM 15139 undergoing maintenance
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F-16AM 15128 looking very smart in the dispersal
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F-16AM 15133 Esq301 markings just before take off
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F-16AM 15126 just after take off
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Part of the collection at the main gate
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Monday 30 August 2010, Ota

P-3P 14804 will not go on its own power for a while
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A-7P 15506 with tower
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G91R/3 32+85
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A-7P burnt
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A-7s are nice, whatever you do to them!
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More to follow later.

Greetings,
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Seems like a great trip! And as an extra a A-7 BBQ!? Thanks for uploading these pictures!

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Wow, great pics and great operational and W&R combi! Viva 4 avn! Why I didn't I go :roll:?
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Great Pictures! Makes me realise that time flies.. I did something similar in the early nineties. All those beautiful wfu & bbq planes you see now were up and going back then. Sad to see!!

Thanx for sharing!
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Great shots guys!

Already looking forward to the next trip, Jurgen!

Greetz,

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Wow, that last one... and I thought that the Greek A-7's at Agrinion looked really bad..! Boy, was I wrong... Must have been a great trip though.
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frank kramer wrote:Wow, that last one... and I thought that the Greek A-7's at Agrinion looked really bad..! Boy, was I wrong... Must have been a great trip though.
the ones " Agrinion are hot because of the son :sunny: , not because of the fire :devilish:
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Re: 4Aviation's Portugal tour

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Very nice photo report!
Thanks for sharing...

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As promised a few more from our trip to Portugal last week.
I left at Ota on Monday and will continue with Montijo on Tuesday morning.

All twelve EH-101s have been delivered by now. Two were deployed, so ten were at home.
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Next door to the Esq751 is the Marinha hangar. We had no visit there but could take some shots from the ramp.
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A bit further down the road were the C212s with this one having special markings.
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On the other side of the runway from this large base, the C-130s and new C295s live.
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In the afternoon we headed for Sintra. This time for the operational stuff.

You do not see a lot of these any more these days. Today we saw six Chipmunks.
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Training nowadays is performed on the Epsilon. They are being repainted from white to... what else: grey!
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Outside the Epsilon hangar we found an old Ce337.
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And inside we found another one, which will be going to Mozambique!
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Also on this base you can find a Gina. During our stay in Portugal we saw 25 different ones.
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This Talon is preserved in a very special pose.
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That's it for now, only Beja to follow.

Greetings,
Jurgen
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You mean that the Chipmunk are still operational ?!?

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TAZZ wrote:You mean that the Chipmunk are still operational ?!?

:mrgreen:
In a way, yes.
They are used to tow gliders. They even got bigger engines for this job.

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great pictures guys.... any news heard from FAP? There are rumours about possible PC-21 (or T-6B Texan II) as Alpha Jet replacement.....
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Trueno wrote:great pictures guys.... any news heard from FAP? There are rumours about possible PC-21 (or T-6B Texan II) as Alpha Jet replacement.....
No mention of that @ Beja AFAIK....

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Re: 4Aviation's Portugal tour

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Hello,

Nice pics :shock: !!
Req.
Who can give me a log of Beja that day because I was there in the morning of September 1.
Thanks!

Grtx

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